Chapter 53.-1
Nyx
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Panic attack. Oh, I was having a full-on panic attack. After ducking out of the conference room, I’d
run as fast as I could, which wasn’t that fast on two legs, but God, I needed to put as much space as I could between what had just happened and myself.
It wasn’t until my lungs were burning that I stopped and realized that I wasn’t alone. Juniper
stopped next to me and frowned. I was leaning over, ready to hurl on the ground, and she was
barely red in the face.
“I’m going to chalk it up to the baby growing because otherwise, you are in terrible shape in human
form.”
Straightening, I glared at her. “We’ve been running around this goddamn mountain for weeks, and
you’re just now noticing?”
“I guess we’re usually running from something, so I hadn’t noticed. Are we running from something
now?”
“No. Maybe.” My panic still wasn’t subsiding. “I just met Emily and Gemma.”
Juniper’s eyes filled with pleasure, and she sat next to me. We were close to the territory line, and there were patrols’ eyes us, but nobody asked us to move. “I can’t believe Emily is alive. I know Rhyson needs time, so I’m not barging in there, but she and I used to be friends. Gemma too,
although I didn’t see much of her. Oh, shit. Gemma. That’s why you’re running, isn’t it?”
“What?” I wasn’t running from the gorgeous raven-haired beauty who was supposed to be Rhyson’s
mate. “No. She seems great. She’ll make a good queen, I guess.”
“She’ll make a what?” Juniper choked out. “What did you just say?”
“Look, that’s not why I ran. That’s not what’s important. Emily gave me the description of Marrow’s
killer. Juniper, I know who it is.”
Juniper stilled. “Talk.”
“I don’t know for sure that he’s Marrow’s killer, but it’d be pretty easy for me to find out. Gemma described a tattoo. He…he…” The dizzy spell came back, and I rested my head between my legs as I tried to gather my thoughts. “I thought it belonged to someone else. He said it was a reminder of who he used to be. I thought he meant someone who he had killed, but I think it’s literally a reminder of who he used to be. It’s hanging on the wall.”
“Nyx, you need to breathe,” Juniper snapped. “You’re not making any sense. What is hanging on
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whose wall?”
“The tattoo. The skin and the tattoo. It’s been preserved and framed.” My breathing was more shallow now, and I thought I was going to pass out.
“Hey,” Juniper shouted to the guards behind us. “Can you get us some water? Or sugar? Or a healer? She’s about to pass out.”
One of the guards nodded and took off, and Juniper leaned over. “Nyx, you’re fucking pregnant. Stop hyperventilating and tell me what the hell you’re talking about.”
My heart slammed against my chest. I needed to tell her. Someone needed to tell Rhyson because
it couldn’t be me. I couldn’t look at him and tell him the truth. “Gemma saw a tattoo of a yellow
snake strangling a wolf on the man who attacked Rhyson’s parents and killed them. Only it’s not a
yellow snake strangling a wolf. It’s a golden dragon wrapped around a wolf, becoming one with it. There are wings folded along the wolf’s back and a crown hovering above in the air. It’s symbolic. The wolf is becoming a dragon, soon to be ruler of all.”
Juniper nodded. I must have been making more sense. “Okay. And you know this how?”
“Because it’s preserved and hanging on the wall of my father’s bedroom. It’s his. My father killed
Rhyson’s parents.”
Juniper jumped to her feet. “You didn’t tell him?”
“Could you?” I shivered. “Could you tell the father of your child that the man you share blood with is the same man he’s hunting?”
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